Sacred Stories

Rachel Mann, PhD interviews author, shamanic healer and teacher, Christina Pratt, founder of the Last Mask Center about the importance of healing trauma, our ancestral lines, and the initiation of our young into spiritual adulthood. Christina discusses how the resistance we feel both individually and collectively to undertaking the steep incline to what she calls spiritual adulthood normal and yet must be faced if we are to create a world of peace.

Christina Pratt is a healer, author and teacher of exceptional clarity, humor and practicality. At the Last Mask Center, which she founded, she is pioneering new shamanic techniques to deal with complex trauma, the healing of our ancestral lines and initiation of our young into spiritual adulthood. The Center offers healing sessions, online classes, and in-person retreats. She is the author of The Encyclopedia of Shamanism and the host of radio show, “Why Shamanism Now?” lastmaskcenter.org.

Rachel Mann, Ph.D., is a sacred activist, social scientist, healer and spiritual mentor. Learn more at https://www.rachelmannphd.com

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Rachel Mann shares her journey of discovery and healing as she unexpectedly met and studied with Native American teachers from North and South America, including the Q’ero of the Peruvian Andes.

She reflects on what these ancient wisdom lineages translated into contemporary contexts by both indigenous peoples and their non-Native students have to do with the potential for a great shift in consciousness in these times of crisis and change.

Rachel Mann, Ph.D., is a sacred activist, social scientist, healer and spiritual mentor. Learn more at https://www.rachelmannphd.com

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Learn why women philosophers in ancient Greece as well as in first century Alexandria were pushed aside and why their sexuality was used to vilify them with Dr. Joanna Kujawa and Joan E. Taylor.

Joan E. Taylor is a scholar and author of several books on early women philosophers. She specializes in Jewish and early Christian women-philosophers. In this interview, we focus on her archetypes of women philosophers. kcl.ac.uk/people/joan-taylor

Dr. Joanna Kujawa is a spiritual detective and author of The Other Goddess: Mary Magdalene and the Goddesses of Eros and Secret Knowledge. https://www.joannakujawa.com/

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Rachel Mann interviews Mandy Bird, LCHMC, who shares why it is important to feel our grief to become individually authentic and know our purpose to take care of the world.

While grief may take us to our knees, Mandy teaches us what we can do so we are not destroyed in the process. Doing this is profoundly connected to feeling our oneness as human beings and, thus, to ending all forms of violence and oppression.

Mandy Byrd is a licensed therapist and co-author with Chris Saade of Tears Are the Source of Your Passion: The Power of Authenticity & Grief. mandybird.com.

Rachel Mann, Ph.D., is a sacred activist, social scientist, healer and spiritual mentor. Learn more at https://www.rachelmannphd.com

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Join the conversation with Dr Joanna Kujawa and Miguel Conner on the origins of Gnosticism, Gnostic goddesses (Sophia) and two Gnostic couples – Mary Magdalene and Jesus and Helen of Tyre and Simon the Magician.  Learn how the gnostic movement originated and why it is still relevant today.

Miguel Conner is a Gnostic aficionado, author of several books on Gnosticism including Voices of Gnosticism and Other Voices of Gnosticism and hosts a popular podcast. To learn more https://thegodabovegod.com

Dr. Joanna Kujawa is a spiritual detective and author of The Other Goddess: Mary Magdalene and the Goddesses of Eros and Secret Knowledge. https://www.joannakujawa.com/

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Rachel Mann discusses her fervent belief that healing personal, ancestral, and global wounds is central to harnessing humanity’s highest destiny lines to a Great Peace. She talks about her own journey of healing from PTSD due to family trauma and how it brought her in touch with her mission and purpose as a sacred activist, shamanic energy healer, and spiritual teacher. Rachel challenges a dominant belief in the world that we are destined to always suffer from betrayals, losses, and harms.

Rachel Mann, Ph.D., is a sacred activist, social scientist, healer and spiritual mentor. Learn more at https://www.rachelmannphd.com

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Join the conversation with Dr Joanna Kujawa and Tobias Churton on early Christian attitudes about a women’s place in society, attitudes towards sexuality, and the perception of Goddess Sophia in Gnostic teachings.

Tobias Churton is a British scholar, author of many books and explorer of esoteric traditions, including the Gnostic movement.  In this interview, we discuss his book, Gnostic Mysteries of Sex. Learn more at https://tobiaschurton.com

Dr. Joanna Kujawa is a spiritual detective and author of The Other Goddess: Mary Magdalene and the Goddesses of Eros and Secret Knowledge. https://www.joannakujawa.com/

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Join Rachel Mann, Ph.D., as she explains what Sacred Activism for Peacemaking is in the 21st century and what destiny lines have to do with it. She explains how integral personal, family, ancestral, and community healing with energy medicine and ceremony is to dreaming forth a future of enduring peace, compassion and love.

Rachel Mann, Ph.D., is a sacred activist, social scientist, healer and spiritual mentor. Learn more at https://www.rachelmannphd.com

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Join the conversation with Dr Joanna Kujawa and Veronique Flayol to learn about the French traditions devoted to Mary Magdalene. Explore the sacred places associated with Mary Magdalene in Provence and in the Cathar region of Southwestern France. Learn about the Golden Legend and how Mary Magdalene arrived in France.

Veronique Flayol is a lecturer and tour guide. magdalenesacredjourneys.com

Dr. Joanna Kujawa is a spiritual detective and author of The Other Goddess: Mary Magdalene and the Goddesses of Eros and Secret Knowledge. https://www.joannakujawa.com/

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Join the conversation with Dr Joanna Kujawa and Dr Zeus Yiamouyiannis on the archetypes of masculinity, how they evolved, and how they need to change. Listen in as they discuss what it means to be a man authentically, what is needed in a spiritually evolved man, and how our relationships need to change.

Dr Zeus Yiamouyiannis is a researcher and author of The Spiritually Confident Man: Pioneering a New Frontier of Co-Creative Masculinity.

Dr. Joanna Kujawa is a spiritual detective and author of The Other Goddess: Mary Magdalene and the Goddesses of Eros and Secret Knowledge. https://www.joannakujawa.com/

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